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Pictures like these frustrate me. Instead of simply enjoying an event so many people are continually compelled to capture it which always makes me wonder. If you're experiencing an event through the screen of your phone or camera, are you really truly enjoying it?

The things I remember best and appreciate the most are times when I simply enjoyed an event instead of spent my time documenting it. I agree a few photographs can do wonders to fill you with nostalgia and jog your memory - but not when the entirety of an event is spent taking photos. Then you've largely stopped enjoying it and are really just making more of an effort to document it. And that's fine, not what I'd do but I just find this increasingly more widespread.

Plus you know for a fact that you will have videos from many angles at many quality levels on YouTube and Facebook before you even get home. Who cares if it was me who recorded it.

Also it's funny to me when people post pictures of "Orwellian" surveillance cameras. Those cameras are a distraction. We are doing the surveillance ourselves. How do people think the authorities busted Vancouver rioters? Not with surveillance camera footage, but with cell phone videos posted on the Internet.

I dont know, I think that is a little silly. Obviously they are really truly enjoying it, just not the way you do. I have always been a hobbyist photographer and even as a kid I loved taking pictures of fireworks with my little point-and-shoot cannon that would not turn out at all. They were just photos of my towns show that had no value to anybody but me and I still loved doing it. I cant argue against that the "sea of phones" can make it less enjoyable for you or others around but those people may just enjoy shooting photos. Of course the truth is most of them just want a good photo for the internet but nonetheless!

Believe it or not I completely agree with you. I know people who get a huge amount of enjoyment through the consistent documentation and sharing of events with those they know. I'm more intrigued as to why so many people seem to do this now.

I came to say the same thing, every time I see something like this it always makes me somewhat sad for some reason. It's like foreshadowing that technology is steadily separating us from reality. I love new and interesting devices, but at the same time it makes me nostalgic.

Well people who do this are likely living in the future, forever. They aren't in the moment, and thus can't enjoy what is right in front of them. So instead they see something like this and think, "oh, this might be cool. I better save it so I can enjoy it later." but then they never do, taking more pictures of things they plan to enjoy, and die forgetting to live.

I see your point here but for some people, capturing the moment contributes to them enjoying the moment, capturing their individual journey of what they saw, so they can share their view rather than some boring shot somebody else took.

you don't like seeing pictures in which people are taking pictures? If nobody took pictures, you wouldn't be looking at the picture in the first place. You can't look at a picture and go "That's cool! I'm glad I saw that! I wish people weren't taking pictures of it though.." Ya know?

I remember a few years ago, I visited Paris as a 16 year old American without my parents. On Bastille day, drunk as a skunk under the Eiffel tower and I smoked a joint with a random Frenchman during the festivities. I had one hell of a time. Beautiful fireworks and beautiful women everywhere.

not of fireworks... that's something that you can easily google for a pic, and it's not like you're going to remember any specific combination of colors in the sky (unless it's some crazy firework).

Point is, it's retarded that all of those people are pointing shitty digital cameras instead of looking with their eyes!

The point of taking a picture is to help you remember a moment no? Maybe a picture of you and your buddies watching the fireworks, but come on, you're just going to skim over those fireworks pictures when you look at them in 20 years, if you ever get around to dl'ing them on your computer that is.

Honestly, sometimes I feel like having a camera with me is a burden. Because I feel the obligation to document events. It can be quite freeing to just enjoy the moment and not have to worry about what you'll have to show for it.

Don't worry, soon we'll just have glasses that put a HUD over everything we see, then we'll have neural implants that make us see shit on top of the signal that gets sent between the eyes and the brain....

No, the Flemish celebrate July 11, as on that day in 1302, an army of Flemish civilians beat the crap out of the French cavalry of armoured knights (the French wrongly assumed that combat would be 'civilized').

Maybe I'm just too old fashioned, but what's the point of watching a goddamn great firework through a LCD display, while unsuccessfully trying to capture a subpar picture of a firework, when you'll be able to get a way better picture of it on the Internet later on (or video)?

Well it's quite... ambivalent I'd say. He is well remember for the Reign of Terror of course. Something that is considered as a necessary evil by some and as a big atrocity by others... Complicated times.

No, 4th of July is only for America, to celebrate the day that the colonists became independent from Great Britain. However most countries have something similar. With England it is Guy Fawkes day I believe and of course here in France it is Bastille Day or, "The National Day". No one goes to work and there are fireworks shows and lots of parties.

I know that 4th of july is an American holiday, but so many people (mostly on Facebook) question why it isn't celebrated everywhere. And it just makes them seem ignorant, so I said that just as a little sarcastic joke about those people.

Oh haha. Well, I'm not trying to be rude but it does seem that a lot of Americans don't know enough about other countries, and it is sad. I thought you were one of those people so that was my little attempt at educating you... since it is not needed carry on!

Everyone is so hypocritical talking about how sad it is all these people are taking pictures while enjoying this picture's view of the fireworks. Everyone wants their own memory of the show, can't be mad at that!

The smart phones are really aliens come to take over this world. They work in symbiosis with one human at a time, and have a life span of one to two years. They evolve at an alarming pace! Soon they will be able to connect directly with our brains... And they have a collective intelligence, where everything we see, do and think is collected and shared without our knowledge with all other aliens around the world. This picture is the latest proof that the symbiotic species has managed to completely take over our life...

Gotta upload the same picture to facebook that the other million people are going to upload. Everyone else got the exact same shot, enjoy the moment and wait for someone else to post it online and look at it on google.